Meeting the crowd in Today in Pictures

President Barack Obama greets the crowd after speaking about the economy Wednesday at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Mo.

A worker begins the task of cleaning up at least an inch of water covering the playing floor at Pauley Pavilion, home of UCLA basketball, after a broken 30-inch water main under nearby Sunset Boulevard caused flooding that inundated several areas of the UCLA campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Chincoteague Ponies make the 89th annual swim across Assateague Channel to Chincoteague, Va. on Wednesday. A portion of the wild pony herd will be auctioned on Thursday to benefit the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which owns and maintains the herd.

All of this is shown in Today in Pictures.

Today in Pictures is a daily collection of handpicked photos selected by AL.com photographers from the hundreds of Associated Press images of the day.